The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-16
STRAY BITS.
Ruby /. Paradise is the name Of postmas-

Ruby /. Paradise is the name Of postmas-
ter at Concordia, Kan.
A single day Of heavy fog makes the city
Of London pay 10000 more for gas.
The Russian government is pushing rail
road across Siberia with great energy.
The United States sends ,Oo0O 900 barrels of
apples every year to foreign countries.
Fifteen young Mcors from Morocco have
gone to Italy 20 study in the military
colleges.
A German tourist has just encircled the
globe at n cost of 4lsO, and the voyage took
lS5 days.
a social philosopher forcsees the day when
the primary school desk will be supplied with
typewriters instead OF writing books
Sir John Lubbock, in his lecture on
"Sayages,n says that the negroes never kissed
until they were taught by the white people
Queen Vctoria is going to institute an
order OF literary merit, consisting of twenty
knights, fifty knights champions and 100
champions.
China has at the present time 1900 tem-
200 pigs, rabbits, sheep and deer, and
1900 pieces OF silk are offered annually
The largest electric light in the world IS in
the lighthouse at Sydney, Australia. IL has
the power Of 10000 candles, and can be seen
at sea fifty miles distant. Americas largest
light, 1900 candle power, is at San Jose,
Cal
A butter dealer recently sold a quantity Of
bad butter at residence in indianapolis.
When he next returned he was invited ill.,
lie entered and was seized by the inmates,
stripped Of all his clothing and huttered
from head ID foot with his rancid wares
The pstri.ei remains of a huge monster
have Leon discovered near Knoxville, Iowa
The body was between fifty and sixty feet
lon1 with "A head almost four feet long ana
two and ID mali feet wide, with four eyes
The sockets of the eyes are eight inches an
diameter
A manufacturer ina New York state is en-
ga.ed n drafting a design for IA car % be
made entirely of wood pulp II will be light
chean ami understandable by fire or collision
n DC should De thrown OF the track IL wound
simply bound iuto the air and settle down
into IFS place.
Sebastian Muller, Swiss, lately arrived
m New Haven, Conn, Is astonishing the
Yankees with his feats Of strength Tie is -
years DID, b feet 3 inches tall, weighs
poilnI and Il half less than POO. Is magnih
cent?, developed as to muscle, and can break
"a si,-inch cobbls stone with ono blow of bis
n.t
of Tie 4 i0j students of Michigan unver-
sts. it i8 stated boy President Angel that the
PARENTS of 502 were farmers, III merchants
q. LAWYERS. So physicians, - manufacturers,
me. hanics. and 81 clorgymen He esti-
mates that as many as A. per cent. belonged
t9 tle class who gained their living boy
manual toll
Han-aro0 leather has become so decidedly
popular for shoes that 600 skins arc re
.icved and tanned la Newark, y. =. alone
elch week But that means most OF th.
skins used, for they are sent all over the
world from the Jersey tanneries. ono result
Is chat kangaroo hunters ia Australia arr
making money They get 20 cents pound
Tor skins. and some OF them clear from s-,OOJ
q, 5000 IA year
4 San Francisco justice Of tho peace tof-
nu.atei an oath for IA Chinese witness axe
ri8 following IL swear By the Chinese gods
foreigners god. the God Of heaven and earth.
iaat ID am a liar in this case my head VIII
b.. cut oh the same as this chickens head Is
CIT oI. and that 1 viii be drowned M the
ocean and never get back 70 China, and
uhlc repeating the oath the Chinaman held
a cleayer iu his hand, with which he severed
"a chickens head from the body when no
finished the words.